NEXT WEEK
Thursday, March 12
Live Webinar
with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
12:00 - 1:30pm Pacific
The Visual Machine: Let Your Equipment Speak
Visual devices and mini-systems make machinery self-explaining so we can be self-regulating. The Visual Machine� doesn't just help us do the right thing repeatedly, reliably and fast, it helps us prevent problems.
$75 per person or group
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People recognize and react to faces on web pages faster than anything else on the page. Faces looking right at people will have the greatest emotional impact on a web page, probably because the eyes are the most important part of the face.
-100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by
Susan M. Weinschenk, Ph.D.
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Have you seen a Visual Fail that made you laugh?
Send the image to
[email protected],
and we'll put it here and credit you with the funny find!
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From the Editor:
Strategy for Absentees
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Flu season! Absent co-workers! Delayed production! Ack!
It happens every year, but it still finds us unprepared.
You've had a plan for a solution in the back of your head for a long time, but when everything is running smoothly, the plan seems unimportant and gets pushed to the back burner. When the plan is needed, it's too late to create it.
Make a resolution to create a strategy that fills information gaps caused by missing personnel. I-driven (operator-written) instruction manuals, coupled with strong visual devices, can make it possible for things to keep moving in the short term even when key team members are absent. Can your strategy start there?
Cindy Lyndin
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Visual Radio:
A House Worth Building
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Listen to Gwendolyn this Thursday at 10am
This Week's Episode
A House Worth Building: Your Improvement Horizon
[ENCORE]
How do you define "leadership"? Do you use the time-honored words of Vance Packard, marketing guru of the 1960s: "Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to do something you are convinced should be done?" If so, you are misquoting Packard's truly brilliant contribution. Just two little words missing-and, with them, all meaning. This week, Gwendolyn Galsworth supplies the two missing words and explains how the first of her five visual leadership tools helps leaders decide on and organize the corporate intent.
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The Three Outcomes That Define Success
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
(NOTE: Dr. Galsworth is conducting seminars this week. Her series on The Ten Doorways will resume with Doorway 10 next week, in the March 11 issue.)
There are three outcomes that define success as you and your colleagues convert your area to visuality.
Outcome 1: Achieve a Visual Showcase
--The first thing you want as a result of implementing visuality in your area is a Visual Showcase-a work area where you have drilled deep to make operational details visual. The way I like to say it is: one-foot square, one-mile deep. A work area that has reached the showcase level informs all of us what a well-developed visual work environment looks like and how it functions. When we visit such a showcase...
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This Month's
Featured
Product
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On Sale through
March 31!
Created and narrated by Dr. Galsworth,
The Work That Makes Sense (WTMS) Training & Implementation System is a powerful series of 11 individual on-demand webinars, based on Galsworth's Shingo-Prize winning book of the same title. Whether you seek a spirited and engaged workforce, measurable bottom-line results-or both--the NEW WTMS System is the affordable, convenient way to transform your value-add employees into a workforce of visual thinkers and produce a 15% to 30% increase in productivity.
With over 900 powerful, full-color visual solutions as a teaching base, this series of linked webinars stimulates real-time learning and hands-on implementation, supported by exercises, checklists, discussion points, and lots of visual thinking.
Each 1.0 to 1.25 hour webinar is a stand-alone learning module that can be viewed on either a large or small screen, with precise navigation that allows you to stop and start whenever you like.
Regular Price: $5500 USD
On sale through March 31: $4400 USD
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